him

English Online Dictionary. What means him‎? What does him mean?

Translingual

Symbol

him

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 language code for Western Pahari languages.

English

Etymology

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪm/, unstressed IPA^(key): /əm/, [ɪ̈m]
• Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Pronoun

him (personal pronoun, objective case)

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
   1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
   2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
   3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
2. (colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

3. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
4. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
6. (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.

   Synonyms: that guy, that nigga

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: im
• Pijin: hem
• Pijin: -im

Translations

See also

See also

• he
• his
• her
• them

Noun

him (plural hims)

1. (informal) A male person or animal.

   Synonym: he

   • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

References

• “Bro Thinks He's Him / I'm Him”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007

Anagrams

• mi/h, HMI

Gayón

Noun

him

1. water

References

• Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Irish

Noun

him m

1. h-prothesized form of im

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Pronoun

him

1. third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him

2. third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)

Usage notes

• For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

Alternative forms

• himm, hym, im, ym, hime, hyme, hem

Pronoun

him (nominative he)

2. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
3. (reflexive) himself.
4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
5. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

Descendants

• English: him
• Yola: him, ham, em

See also

References

• “him, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

him

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Adjective

him

1. safe
2. unscathed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːm/

Adverb

him

1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

Old English

Alternative forms

• hym, heom, eom
• heom — Mercian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xim/, [him]

Pronoun

him

1. dative of hē: him
2. dative of hit: it
3. dative of hīe: them
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Descendants

• Middle English: him
  • English: him
  • Yola: him, ham, em
• Middle English: hem
  • English: 'em, hem
  • Fingallian: a'me
  • Yola: aam

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/

Pronoun

him

1. dative of hī; him

Inflection

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/

Pronoun

him

1. oblique of hie; him

See also

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “him”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Sursurunga

Verb

him

1. to work

Further reading

• Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /(ə)m/

Pronoun

him

1. object of hy

Yola

Alternative forms

• ham, em

Etymology

From Middle English him, from Old English him.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːm/ (as if spelled haim)
• IPA^(key): /iːm/
• Homophone: hime

Pronoun

him

1. him

Derived terms

• w'eeme

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108